Editing Nikolaus Pevsner (section)

{{Short description|German-British historian (1902–1983)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name          = Nikolaus Pevsner
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FBA|size=100%}}
| image         = Nikolaus Pevsner.jpg
| birth_name    = Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|df=yes|1902|01|30}}
| birth_place   = [[Leipzig]], Kingdom of Saxony<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->, German Empire<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1983|08|18|1902|01|30}}
| death_place   = [[London]], England
| resting_place = [[Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard]], Wiltshire<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] -->, England
| nationality   = British
| education     =
| alma_mater    = {{plainlist|
* [[Leipzig University]] (PhD)
* [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
* [[Humboldt University of Berlin]]
* [[Goethe University Frankfurt]]
}}
| occupation    = [[Art historian|Art]] and [[architectural historian]]
| notable_works = ''[[The Buildings of England]]''
| children      = 3, including [[Tom Pevsner]]
| awards        = [[Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)|Albert Medal]] (1975)
| spouse        = {{marriage|Lola Kurlbaum|1923|1963|reason=died}}
}}

'''Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FBA}} (30{{efn|[[Susie Harries]], Pevsner’s most recent biographer, gives his day of birth as 31 January. Other sources give 30 January.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/20/obituaries/nikolaus-pevsner-dead-at-81-european-architecture-critic.html |first=John|last=Russell|title=Nikolaus Pevsner dead at 81|work=[[New York Times]]|date=20 August 1983|access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref>}} January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British [[art historian]] and [[architectural historian]] best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''[[The Buildings of England]]'' (1951–74).